Management uses this document to outline major milestones, deliverables, and timelines for a long-term project without getting bogged down in day-to-day task scheduling. It provides a visual guide for where a product or initiative is heading over the next few quarters. Workers on the floor often view these plans with skepticism, as they rarely account for real-world delays.
Heard on the job
The engineering road map says we launch in Q3, but we don't even have a working prototype yet.